Using a wide range of German and British sources, this study aims to show how Britain, blinded by doctrinaire free trade and institutional inadequacy, failed to see how its actions in the German states served to damage Anglo-German relations.
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Free Trade and the Zollverein: The Parameters of Commercial Policy-Making | |
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| 1848: Britain and German Commercial Unification | |
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| Britain and the Zollverein, 1849-54 | |
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| Britain and the Iron Tariffs | |
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| Revolutionary on the Continent | |
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| British Commercial Policy towards the Zollverein, 1855-60: The Transition of Free Trade | |
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| British Commercial Policy towards the Zollverein, 1860-6: The Anglo-French and Anglo-Zollverein Treaties of Commerce | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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